Sentence examples for fortunes from inspiring English sources

They will plough on, hoping that there will eventually be a sustained recovery and that it will be accompanied by a turnaround in the fortunes of their parties.

"Mr Summers still isn't winning any personality contests," the Wall Street Journal wryly noted, as Summers fortunes rose.

But perhaps more noxiously, a culture was generated in which investment banking seemed smart, charismatic and the source of fortunes.

The Lord Mayor, Mike Gibbons, who is a Conservative councillor, confirms the project is finally due to open as the city experiences a welcome upturn in fortunes.

His patriotic fervour only extends to the fortunes of the Republic of Ireland football team.

The villas, forum, shops, basilica and baths aren't what they were in 2AD – when an earthquake accelerated the decline in its fortunes – but it's easy to imagine the citizens looking out to sea while waiting for the action to kick off in the amphitheatre.

It could turn out that growing fortunes will be a lot harder in the future than Piketty thinks it will.

Fringe parties such as the neo-Nazi Chryi party, whose fortunes have risen on the back of anti-immigrant sentiment and fierce opposition to austerity measures, could capture as much as 5%% of the vote according to polls released in the run-up to the election.

His fortunes changed when he was arrested in Guatemala in June 1993 as part of a manhunt that followed a dramatic shootout in the airport car park of the central Mexican city of Guadalajara in which a cardinal was killed in his car.

Lib Dems The problem for Nick Clegg is that he has played most of his cards already, and they have not appeared to delivered any improvement in his party's fortunes.

Cameron's aides have been determined to ensure he does not take part after the 2010 election debates were regarded as a disaster for the Conservatives, fearing a new repeat would boost the fortunes of Farage.